Vanity Poems - Examples of all types of vanity poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Forever Young
As I cling on to hope
With all my being.
Refusing to believe
this inevitable inconvenience.
For what gain does it serve me
To recognise this pain
Becoming weak
While it’s solace I earnestly seek
I know another...
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Categories:
vanity, age, angst, death, future,
Form: Free verse
Just PretendNot everything's about gender or race;
some only care about who's in 1st place.
They'll even sell each other out for power,
fortune, and fame, but in the end,
all shall know their shame.
They'll put on a...
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Categories:
truth, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Words From PurgatoryCareful what you eat at Eden
At the back of the paradise
Lies hell and its den
The pack awaits who God chastise....
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Categories:
deep, paradise, religious, vanity,
Form: Light Verse
Rigid EgoWickedness can be use for rapists
But what will one attach to plagiarists?
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Categories:
vanity, art, betrayal, hilarious, pollution,
Form: Couplet
The Abyss KingThe proud ruler known vainly as Saklas
In the abyss proudly proclaimed with brass:
“I am god, no other but me!”
Then a voice above said in glee:
“You are completely wrong Saklas, you ass.”
Date: 09/06/2022
I counted the syllables...
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Categories:
vanity, god, humor, humorous, mythology,
Form: Limerick
The Look That KillsDeception of reflection,
each mirror so enthralls
Calling in our timeless hope,
frozen in its pall
Its backing silver plated,
to seal the ego’s dream
Lending what cannot be bought
—deadly in its gleam
(The New Room: June, 2022)
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Rhyme
False PromiseThe end of all is vanity,
damnation so accused
The mirror speaking falsely
—of promise purple hued
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Ananais and Sapphira - Peter and SpiritI
Spirit of God gives wisdom:
Read Acts, chapters 4 & 5
Doing charity and kicked down
Ananais & Sapphira: not alive
II
Peter sensed this couple, Christian
Had ignoble motives, sold land
Lied to him, they donated everything
At his feet. Scary bible...
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Categories:
vanity, bible, character, christian, mythology,
Form: Didactic
EquilibriumIt rained and poured heavily as never before
Washing away hills,downs and the plain;
Sure it was a commited lofty drain
To revive the struggling, straggling live galore;
Lightings thunder like pretentious promoters
Heckled over the ravage and disorder
Off and...
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Sonnet
Chess and CrueltyI
Practising something
Winning takes thinking
Like the world
Values curtailed, curled
II
Add anonymity
Online carefree community
Some will begin games
Not play; hope you go away
Courtesy questioned; charged with abandonment
Social contract corrected less fast (for content)
III
We play games
For variety, virtual community
Go everywhere,...
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Categories:
vanity, art, bible, games, god,
Form: Alliteration
THE PAIN, THE PAIN - not mineI
The pain, the pain - not mine
God had allowed them, I didn't whine
Love and lottery share a common thread -
Money makes them attractive, addictive
We know it yet prefer silence, one so eerie
It is shocking that...
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Categories:
vanity, jesus, pain, passion, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Some ManYou remind me of some man
Tall, dark and ... Ah! May.
His wallet was a handful dripping
His masculine hands were short with
a bright, cheerful face
His speech was deep,
Brain full yet racing
Well organised and viper...
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Categories:
vanity, betrayal, crazy, dark, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Open Minded IkeOpen minded Ike, who hailed from County Pike
Inherited a classic Indian Motor Bike
Being open minded and concerned it might offend
He buried it in the land fill of South Bend
Open minded Ike lived on the old...
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Categories:
vanity,
Form: Narrative
Another slice of Spirit, please Sir"The boy (Twist) asks for more," yelled Bumble
At the English charity minus charitable people
According to Victorian novelist, Mr Dickens
Since 1900, loud Christians yell, "more!"
No one asked for or fell centuries before
Receiving the baptism of Spirit....
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Categories:
vanity, 12th grade, baptism, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower of BabelBefore men did a tower build,
within their mind, the seed of pride
like a noxious weed in fields was sown.
To replace God was their sole aim
and establish for themselves a name.
This seed in Satan did abound.
He...
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Categories:
vanity, allusion, god, philosophy, pride,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Vanity Poems
Definition | What is Vanity in Poetry?
Poems Related to Vanity
pride, arrogance, narcissism, self love, show, ostentation, pretension, airs, vainglory, affectation, display, ego trip, conceitedness, smugness, self worship, big headedness, self admiration, showing off,